July 31, 2012
Mechanical engineering junior Andre White, who is currently on co-op with Boeing, says Drexel's co-op program arms students with an "extra notch of competitiveness."
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July 31, 2012
Ph.D. student Michael Naguib Abdelmalak has received a three-month research grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
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July 30, 2012
Department Head and Professor Antonios Zavaliangos received a $36K donation from the International Fine Particles Research Institute (IFPRI) in support of his research work on the compaction of fine powders mixtures.
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July 27, 2012
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July 27, 2012
Department Head and Professor Antonios Zavaliangos has received a $270,420 grant from Abbott Laboratories for “Discrete Element Method for Phramaceutical Powder Compaction: Medelling and Experiments.”
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July 26, 2012
A tiny vibrating cantilever sensor could soon help doctors and field clinicians quickly detect harmful toxins, bacteria and even indicators of certain types of cancer from small samples of blood or urine. Researchers from Drexel University are in the process of refining a sensor technology that they developed to measure samples at the cellular level into an accurate method for quickly detecting traces of DNA in liquid samples.
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July 26, 2012
A tiny vibrating cantilever sensor could soon help doctors and field clinicians quickly detect harmful toxins, bacteria and even indicators of certain types of cancer from small samples of blood or urine.
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July 26, 2012
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July 26, 2012
Professor Jonathan Spanier and colleagues have had two papers published in important materials journals.
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July 25, 2012
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July 25, 2012
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July 19, 2012
A country often looks to engineers to solve its problems. At the height of the Cold War thousands of American engineers worked at a fervent pace to develop technologies to beat the Soviet Union; few fully understood how much their actions would impact future generations.
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July 19, 2012
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July 18, 2012
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July 18, 2012
Four Drexel University Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics professors were awarded a Transforming Undergraduate Education grant by the National Science Foundation to develop an improved biomechanical engineering curriculum at Drexel. The NSF proposal titled, Integrating Biomechanical Engineering Research and Design and a Co-operative Education was developed by professor Alisa Morss Clyne, with assistance from James Tangorra, Hongseok Noh, and Wei Sun.
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July 18, 2012
Drexel senior Amanda Pentecost is currently in China working at the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI). She is the first student to take part in the Drexel-SARI partnership.
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July 18, 2012
Professors Christopher Li and Ying Sun of Mechanical Engineering receive a grant to investigate improvements to printing functional nanoparticles on to flexible substrates.
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July 17, 2012
Drexel University engineers continue to drive research into the use of carbon nanotubes, straw-like structures that are more than 1,000 times thinner than a single human hair. Their most recent development uses the tiny tubes to separate liquids within a solution.
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July 16, 2012
Distinguished University and Trustee Chair Professor Yury Gogotsi and colleagues continue to drive research into the use of carbon nanotubes.
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July 13, 2012
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July 12, 2012
Julianne Holloway, CBE PhD Candidate, was awarded a 2012 Most Promise Doctoral Award based on her dissertation work titled, "Development and Characterization of UHMWPE Fiber-Reinforced Hydrogels for Meniscal Replacement".
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July 11, 2012
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July 11, 2012
The group, dubbed team “Drexel Dragons,” won the game design mobile category with a smartphone app that turns learning math concepts into a fun game.
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July 10, 2012
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July 10, 2012
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July 10, 2012
In the aftermath of the recent United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, the focus of many industrialized nations is beginning to shift toward planning for a sustainable future. One of the foremost challenges for sustainability is efficient use of renewable energy resources, a goal that hinges on the ability to store this energy when it is produced and disburse it when it is needed.
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July 10, 2012
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July 09, 2012
Arianna Watters and James Throckmorton traveled to Baltimore, MD to compete in the SAMPE University Research Symposium in May 2012.
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July 09, 2012
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July 09, 2012
An educational initiative, jointly funded by India and the United States, has paired Drexel University with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to create a resource for assessing the human health risks of microbial contamination.
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July 06, 2012
Alumni, donors, faculty, professional staff and students participated in the Drexel Engineering Golf Tournament on June 25 at the Huntingdon Valley Country Club to benefit the Drexel Engineering scholarship fund.
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July 06, 2012
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July 05, 2012
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July 02, 2012
The project is designed to capture energy from the vibrations of the rocket during launch.
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